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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Multitasking as the rest of the world see it
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Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 21:39:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 21:39:20 1987
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In article <8708111704.AA12623@cogsci.berkeley.edu> (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>
>Last night I had a telephone conversation from a intelligent person, a
>programmer no less.  A person with commercial products for the Commodore-64
>and IBM clown markets.	Here's an excerpt:
> [sorry excerpt deleted...]
>No, he was not "yanking my cord".  Yes, he understood my explanation of
>how real multitasking works.  One down, how many billions to go?

Many billions. Unfortunately. I have had otherwise reasonable people say
"Yeah, I've got multitasking on my PC, I use DesqView." Not to slight
DesqView at all but lets get real, any time the 'background' tasks stop
working because you are doing something else is not multitasking. There
is a lot of satisfaction to be gained when you help someone cross the 
hurdle in to the multitasking world. You get to watch that little light
go on in their eyes when they *really* understand. Unfortunately, I also
sometimes feel like the serpent in the Garden of Eden too. Some of these
people have to go back and use an IBM clone day in and day out. Certainly
OS/2 looks like their land of milk and honey, if they can only afford to 
upgrade...

--Chuck McManis
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